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Villamontán de la Valduerna es un municipio y lugar español de la provincia de León, en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León. Se encuentra a 46 km al SO de León, dentro del valle de La Valduerna. Cuenta con una población de .

Localidades

El municipio está integrado por las siguientes localidades:

 Fresno de la Valduerna
 Miñambres de la Valduerna
 Posada de la Valduerna
 Redelga de la Valduerna
 Valle de la Valduerna
 Villalís de la Valduerna
 Villamontán de la Valduerna

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Historia

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También existen indicios de la existencia de un castro.

.  Otros asentamientos romanos se sitúan en la orilla alta del río Ornia y en Villamontán (Villa Montanus) estuvo ubicada una quinta o villa romana cuyo señor, posiblemente Tito Montanio Materno, gobernaba los alrededores sometiendo a sus gentes como siervos para el trabajo de faenas agrícolas.

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Iglesia

De cierto mérito, debiéndose parte de ella a la época gótica. Armadura ochavada en su capilla mayor, con lazo de ocho ataujerado y colgante de talla en su harneruelo. Nave colateral con dos arcos agudos llanos. En lo que respecta a la escultura, destacar el sagrario que parece de los últimos años del , con un segundo cuerpo de orden corintio, relieves y pequeña imagen de Santa Águeda. Tabla gótica, a temple, con la Asunción, muy deteriorada.

Los seis ángeles, con túnicas blancas, son de tipo flamenco y están hechos correctamente; abajo, grupo de apóstoles, cortado por su mitad, ante el sepulcro; paisajito verdoso; nimbos de oro grabado, y así también el cielo, formando recuadros; cabezas muy expresivas.

En la platería, tenemos cáliz gótico dorado, del . Pie y nudo grabados, con follajes varios y figuras hasta medio cuerpo de la Virgen, San Juan y hombre barbudo con sombrero, libro en la mano y señalando, y otras pequeñillas de San Pedro y mujer con balanza: además, escudos con bastones, y un disco sobrepuesto con Crucifijo. La copa es del  con hojas e inscripción: «Calicem salutaris accipi».

Fiestas

Santa Águeda. Siendo su patrona, virgen y mártir de Catania (Italia), a la cual le hacen fiesta el 5 y 6 de febrero con gran solemnidad.

Fiesta Sacramental. Es el segundo domingo de septiembre siendo la fiesta mayor.

Véase también

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Enlaces externos

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Localidades de Villamontán de la Valduerna
Localidades de La Valduerna


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THE OTHER BENNET SISTER - by Janice Hadlow
Published: January 2020 - Mantle.
Genre: Adult / historical fiction / retellings / romance.
Triggers/Content Advisory: N.A.
Source: Thank you so much to Pan Macmillan SA for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. All thoughts are my own.
In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mary is the middle of the five Bennet girls and the plainest of them all, so what hope does she have? Prim and pious, with no redeeming features, she is unloved and seemingly unlovable.
The Other Bennet Sister, though, shows another side to Mary. An introvert in a family of extroverts; a constant disappointment to her mother who values beauty above all else; fearful of her father's sharp tongue; with little in common with her siblings – is it any wonder she turns to books for both company and guidance? And, if she finds her life lonely or lacking, that she determines to try harder at the one thing she can be: right.
One by one, her sisters marry – Jane and Lizzy for love; Lydia for some semblance of respectability – but Mary, it seems, is destined to remain single and live out her life at Longbourn, at least until her father dies and the house is bequeathed to the reviled Mr Collins.
But when that fateful day finally comes, she slowly discovers that perhaps there is hope for her, after all.
This novel is perfect for you if you're a fan of Austen, and if you like gentle-moving historical fiction and old-fashioned romance. It's a good story, but I personally didn't love it.
I definitely enjoyed it. It's relaxing to read, and there's something so comforting about escaping into this particular era with familiar characters. Unfortunately, I also found it boring at times. The writing is rather plain, too, and Mary's internal monologuing gets repetitive. Altogether it's not bad - just unremarkable. The plot could've been stronger (this is certainly a character driven story) and the writing lacked sparkle, as well.
"It is my conviction, Miss. Bennet, that our inability to say what we mean, to tell the truth about what we think and feel, is one of the great curses of our age. We say we honour candour and honesty, but we do not practice them. Instead, we hide behind a thousand equivocations and disguises that we like to call politeness - and remain in wilful ignorance of the truth of our affections, when knowledge of them might have changed our lives forever, had we but been aware of their existence."
Mary was the character I always related to when I watched Pride and Prejudice, and at the same time she was the one I didn't want to relate to. She's always been portrayed as a overly pious, boring, and "ugly" character. The reason I wanted to read this book was because it promised to give her more depth; to actually understand and flesh her personality out, and I wanted that for her character.
I love what Hadlow does with Mary. I love that we get to be inside her head and to see the events of Pride and Prejudice (and post Pride and Prejudice, all from Hadlow's own imagination) from her perspective. I especially enjoyed watching her relationships with her sisters, and liked how Hadlow portrayed the other characters (that we know from Austen's own work) through Mary's eyes. It made me see them in a new light, Lizzy especially.
I related to Mary more than I ever have, and it was refreshing to see someone like her (especially in the context of the story) be a three-dimensional heroine easily carrying her own story. Her pain and hurt is palpable, but so is her strength, intelligence, courage, and independence. She's inspirational. She's also fully realised.
I enjoyed seeing more of the Gardiner family, too, and all of the new characters and settings that Hadlow introduces to the Austen universe - firmly making it her own. Mary's romance is lovely, so is her beautiful friendship with the Gardiners (especially with Mrs. Gardiner - it felt so good to see her become like a mother to Mary, and give her the love and acceptance her own mother never did), and her other relationships (good and bad) are all compelling and complicated. It's got the charm of Austen, but at the same time it's wholly new and interesting. The balance is perfect.
The Other Bennet Sister is a sweet, gentle story that makes an admirable heroine out of Jane Austen's Mary Bennet.
MR. NOBODY - by Catherine Steadman

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Pirates' Plunder – Live Auction!
The Pirates' Plunder Auction of pirate memorabilia from several private collections as well as donated items will be held at 83 West during the Pirate Parlay on Friday night.
This year, the auction proceeds will benefit Cayla's Coats. Cayla's Coats provides coats and life jackets to children for free and helps spread the word about drowning prevention and awareness.


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Die Oelkers-Werft ist eine ehemalige deutsche Werft und galt als Hamburger Traditionsunternehmen. Sie wurde im Jahr 1876 von Johann Oelkers gegründet.

Zu Spitzenzeiten beschäftigte sie 220 Mitarbeiter. Das Werftgelände betrug im Jahr 1991 25.000 m². Die Werft ging im Jahr 1991 endgültig in Konkurs.

Weblinks
 Chronik auf alt-wilhelmsburg.de
 Oelkers-Werft zum Nulltarif - Ein Geschenk, das niemand will in: Die Welt vom 20. Februar 2001.

Ehemalige Werft (Deutschland)
Ehemaliges Unternehmen (Hamburg)
Geschichte (Elbe)
Gegründet 1876
Aufgelöst 1991

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TMH Showcases New Capsule Coach Concept
During the Transport Week 2021 in Moscow, TMH and Federal Passenger Company (a subsidiary of Russian Railways) presented the concept (mockup) of "herringbone" interior layout for a non-compartment passenger rail car.
The First Deputy Prime Minister of Russian Federation Andrei Belousov, Russian Railways' CEO and Chairman of the Board Oleg Belozerov, TMH' CEO and Member of The Union of Machine Builders of Russia Kirill Lipa, and TMH' Deputy CEO for Passenger Transport Development Alexander Loshmanov participated in the presentation.
The "herringbone" concept takes its name from the arrangement pattern of the berths, positioned diagonally to the aisle. Two options of utilizing the interior space are demonstrated: the personal capsule and the open compartment. The personal capsule is designed for passengers, who travel by themselves, it is separated from the aisle with a wall and a curtain. The open compartment is designed for passengers, who travel with company – family members, children, or other companions. Each passenger has access to personal charging stations, cloth hangers, wall pockets, and other utilities useful during a train journey. Extra luggage space is provided through shelves, mounted under the ceiling.
The concept was designed by 2050.LAB exclusively for TMH. This is the third iteration in the series of concepts evaluating potential replacements for the "platzkart" layout, widespread in Russia. The uniting element of the series is the individualization of the environment (tables, shelves, lighting, air vents), in which the passenger spends the journey. The concept was designed for loading gauge T, making it wider and longer compared to the current standard. The length of the useable space inside the car is increased by 290 cm, the width of the car – by 28 cm, the length of sleeping berths – by 15 cm.
The new interior is inspired by the results of focus-group sessions aimed at improving the experience of passengers. The "herringbone" coaches are intended for "night express" market segment of train travel, and should be used for up to 12-hour journeys during the nighttime.
The first mockup of a perspective non-compartment passenger car – "module car" – was presented at Kazansky Rail Hub in Moscow in 2019. In 2020, its version for loading gauge T was presented at Paveletsky Rail Hub. The second mockup – "capsule coach" – was presented in March 2021 at VDNKh as part of the "Travel!" Tourist Forum.


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Hong Kong universities offer a wide range of research postgraduate programmes in both Science and Humanities. Students are encouraged to conduct research under the guidance and supervision of world-class scholars in a liberal environment. Ongoing support from the government and other organisations enables students to benefit from learning and development in advanced teaching and research facilities. Hong Kong's dynamic research culture continues to attract young researchers to study here.
Research postgraduate programmes require students to focus primarily on their research work, but they may also include some taught components. At the end of their studies, students must submit a thesis/dissertation based on their research and defend their work in an oral examination conducted before an examination panel.
Based on the required level of depth and breadth in the research subject, students are admitted to Master's and doctoral programmes. Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) are the two main types of degrees awarded for research postgraduate studies.
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Most research postgraduate programmes at the doctoral level lead to Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and universities in Hong Kong offer a wide range of Ph.D. programmes. With a focus on individual research, some Ph.D. programmes also include a coursework component. Students are required to conduct an in-depth investigation on a chosen topic and to display sustained independent effort and original thought. To graduate, students must submit a complete thesis of publication-worthy quality and demonstrate to an examination panel their thorough understanding of the context and significance of their research work. Ph.D. students are also expected to produce evidence and arguments in support of an original proposition that makes a significant contribution to knowledge in their chosen subject.
To encourage high quality students to pursue their doctoral studies in Hong Kong, a Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme has been set up by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Further information on this scheme can be found on the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme page.
Most research postgraduate programmes at the doctoral level lead to a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), and universities in Hong Kong offer a wide range of PhD programmes. With major emphasis placed on individual research, some PhD programmes also have a coursework component. Students are required to conduct in-depth investigation of a chosen topic, and to display sustained independent effort and original thought on the subject area. In order to graduate, students are required to present a complete thesis of publication-worthy quality, and to demonstrate to the examination panel that they have a thorough understanding of the context and significance of their research work. PhD students are also expected to produce evidence and arguments supporting an original proposition that results in a significant contribution to knowledge of their chosen subject.
To attract quality students to undertake doctoral studies in Hong Kong, a Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme has been set up by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Further information on this scheme can be found on the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme page.


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Odette Loyen du Puigaudeau (20 July 1894 – 19 July 1991) was a French ethnologist, traveler and journalist. With artist Marion Sénones (1886 – 1977), she made three trips to northern Africa to conduct field research among the nomads of the western Sahara region.

Biography
Puigaudeau was born 1894 in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Inférieur), France, the only child of Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930), a painter of the Pont-Aven School, and a mother who was a portrait painter. Beginning in 1908, the family lived in Le Croisic (Loire-Atlantique) in the manor of Kervaudu. She was educated at home by her parents.

In 1920, she moved to Paris to study oceanography at the Sorbonne hoping to find employment at the marine laboratory in Carthage, Tunisia, in northern Africa, but that effort proved to be unsuccessful. She then took a variety of jobs: as a designer in the laboratories of the Collège de France, a stylist at the fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin and a journalist at L'Intransigeant and in women's magazines.

Following her passion for travel, Puigaudeau became one of the first women to live aboard on a Breton tuna vessel in 1929. She described life in the Breton islands at that time in her book Grandeur des îles (Splendor of the Isles). She also attempted to join a scientific expedition to Greenland but her application was refused by the ship's commander Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), who would not accept women on board.

Desert travels
Puigaudeau arranged an ethnographic expedition to the Sahara desert and, more specifically, to Mauritania, in 1933 and 1934[1] with her life partner Marion Sénones, painter and contributor to her books. The couple embarked on a lobster boat from France and arrived a month later in modern-day Nouadhibou, Mauritania, which was a French colony at that time. In her book, Pieds nus travers la Mauritanie (Barefoot across Mauritania), illustrated by Sénones, Puigaudeau recounted their overland journey of 4,500 km [almost 2,800 miles] "dressed like Moorish men" to research the region's nomads. The book was the winner of a grand prize from the French Academy in 1936 and helped bolster Puigaudeau's notability as an ethnologist.

She arranged to make return trips to the Western Sahara twice more, once between 1936 and 1938, and again in 1950 and 1951.[4] Her second trip took a year to finish the "6,500 kilometers [4,000 miles] across the tracks of southern Morocco, Mauritania and French Sudan (today Mali)."

For each of her trips, Puigaudeau arranged support and funding from several French institutions, including the National Museum of Natural History. In addition, for their last trip they received a support from the French overseas department. According to Sébastien, the official purposes of the trips were to offer the public ethnographic and archaeological perspective of the colonized region and its people through scientific papers and popular articles about Mauritania. She also worked on an ethnography thesis under the supervision of Théodore Monod called, Arts et coutumes des Maures, which was published after Puigaudeau's death.

However, in addition to her scientific goals, Puigaudeau also sought to gain rich personal experiences. According to Sébastien, "What fascinates the two travelers is to live to the rhythm of the nomadic Moors, most often on camels."

Activism
In Paris, Puigaudeau founded the French Women's Service in August 1940 to help arrange prehistory and ethnography missions by "various ministries and learned societies."

When she arrived in Mauritania for her final expedition in 1950 she found growing local opposition to French colonization, a position with which she came to sympathize. As a result of her new writings on the subject, she faced growing hostility from both French and African colonial authorities.[4] (Mauritania gained its independence from France on 28 November 1960.)

Later years
Accompanied by Sénones, Puigaudeau moved to Rabat, Morocco in 1961, where she produced cultural radio programs from 1961 to 1962, and worked at the Ministry of Information in 1963. She "took over management of a very young Moroccan prehistory office" at the archaeological museum of Rabat from 1970 to 1977, when Sénones passed away.

Puigaudeau's archives, donated to the Geographical Society in Paris, are kept in the Maps and Plans department at the National Library (BnF) there. However, the whereabouts of films that Puigaudeau was said to have made during her journeys have not been found.

Puigaudeau died 19 July 1991 in Rabat, Morocco.

Selected publications
Odette du Puigaudeau wrote eight books and numerous articles on the Moorish people of the Western Sahara. Sénones co-authored or otherwise contributed to several of her works.

 Odette du Puigaudeau, Marion Sénones, Gravures rupestres du Hank (Sahara Marocain), Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France, vol. 36, n°11, 1939, pp. 437–453.
 Sénones, Marion, Odette du Puigaudeau, Peintures rupestres du Tagant (Mauritanie), Journal de la Société des africanistes, vol. 9, n°1, 1939, pp. 43–70.
 Odette du Puigaudeau, « Gravures rupestres de la Montagne d'Icht (Sud Marocain), Journal de la Société des africanistes, vol. 11, n°1, 1941, pp. 147–156.
 Sénones, Marion, Odette du Puigaudeau, Gravures rupestres de la Vallée moyenne du Draa (Sud Marocain) Journal de la Société des africanistes, vol. 11, n°1, 1941, pp. 157–168.
 Odette du Puigaudeau, illustré de 30 croquis de route de Marion Sénones, de 46 photographies de l'auteur et de 2 cartes, couverture de Chas Boré, La route de l'ouest (Maroc-Mauritanie, Éditions J.Susse, 1945.
 Odette du Puigaudeau, Grandeur des îles, Julliard, 1946; Julliard 1989; Payot 1996 (preface by Monique Vérité).
 Odette du Puigaudeau, Marion Sénones, Le Cimetière de Bir'Umm Garn, Journal de la Société des africanistes, vol. 17, n°1, 1947, pp. 51–56.
 Odette du Puigaudeau, illustré de 25 croquis de route de Marion Sénones, de 24 photographies de l'auteur et de 3 cartes. Tagant (Mauritanie), Julliard, 1949.
 Senones Marion, Odette du Puigaudeau, Vestiges préislamiques de la région d'Assa, Journal de la Société des africanistes, vol. 22, n°1, 1952, pp. 7–15.
 Odette du Puigaudeau, avec 31 dessins dans le texte de Marion Sénones, 22 illustrations hors texte et sept cartes, La piste Maroc-Sénégal, Plon, 1954.

References

Further reading
 Odette du Puigaudeau, Barefoot Through Mauretania, Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury, with a new Introduction by Caroline Stone. (Hardinge Simpole, 2009). .

1894 births
1991 deaths
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One reason I won't vote Democrat in 2008 (voting Green instead)
Politics may make "strange bedfellows," as the saying goes, but there have to be limits, and every now and then I reach one of mine. In this case, for me, it's around the 2008 U.S. presidential election. As Peter Finch's character shouted in the film Network, this is one year when I am not going to "take it" anymore.
Less than two years ago, in late November 2006, I received an email from a reader describing himself as a White American, telling me that (in his opinion - the only one that really counts, of course) he's "never committed even one act of "racism"..." [his quotes] in his life. Bravo for you, dude.
In fact, he started his email telling me that he's voted Democrat all his life. As I read, I wondered, "What Democratic Party member-profile does this guy fit?" How many Democrats think like him? I wondered, Are Democrats like him just ignored, or even accepted? That was then and this is now, and I leave it to others more interested than I to answer such questions. (Don't hold your breath...)
In 2008 the Democratic Party took things a step farther and found themselves the "kind" of "black" (as so many white Americans seem to like to say) they could feel "comfortable" to back for president; one whom even Joe Biden could bring himself to admire.
So this is the year when some Black people with the privilege to vote in the U.S. - i.e., people from different ethnic and national backgrounds (continental African, Caribbean, Black American, Afro-Latino) have convinced themselves that voting Democratic will somehow be "pan-African." Not only are most White voters left clueless about pan-Africanism and what it's supposed to be, some of those who will vote Nov. 4th for the Democrats selected black guy are the descendants of the same people who enslaved my family: in Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, South Carolina - and elsewhere. I call them "slaveholder descendants for Obama." These slaveholder descendants will feel good about themselves and their motives as they cast their votes for the Democratic candidate, even while they avoid and still steadfastly refuse any contact with or acknowledgement of me, my family and the history, places and country (also names and bloodlines) we share. Then there is the guy who sent the email below. Are these people really all on the same page? Good question, and yet relatively few Americans seem to have the stomach to attempt any acceptable answer.
In 2007 I finally shared the message below with Democrats Abroad email list. As I wrote to Dems Abroad, there is no etiquette for how to bring up such subjects, and yet I also know that they need to be raised and addressed, and not just by persons who look like me.
Continue reading "One reason I won't vote Democrat in 2008 (voting Green instead)" »
Posted by Marian on 25 September 2008 at 07:09 in Anti-Black Racism, Colonialism- Virginia - UK, US 1607-2007, Colored America, Culture/ethnicity/race, Elections U.S., Int'l dispatches, Las americas, Political history, Politics, Racial pecking orders , Slavery world history: 10 May, USA, Wash, dc "Official", Wash, dc Local | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
India's Shame: Anti-minority atrocities in Orissa
All of Indian society, India's diaspora (particularly in the West), the national government and its diplomats in Washington and elsewhere, and anyone anywhere in the world who professes to admire or emulate India really must take action to stop the most barbaric butchery being carried out against religious and ethnic minority communities, particularly in Orissa State. There's the little girl, no more than ten, her face terribly scarred when local terrorists set her family home alight, and with them inside. We have no idea why U.S. media no longer are capable of or interested in doing the type of courageous and important international reporting evidenced in this moving FRANCE 24 report - "Where Bibles are burnt", filed, as it should be, from India, by Stephanie Lebrun, Arnaud Kehon and Navodita Pandey. You've done your work here; vous avez faites votre travail. No matter who or which group or religion would commit such acts, it would be irrevocably wrong. God have mercy on those men and women who murder, assist, and commit these crimes against humanity, and who go further in doing so "in God's name" - and certainly God's mercy on these poor victims.
Posted by Marian on 20 September 2008 at 17:34 in "Black Is a Country", 1325 Women, peace, conflict, Culture/ethnicity/race, Elections anywhere, Gender&disaster , HR, Int'l dispatches, MSM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Italy can do better than deeply sexist Berlusconi
There are lots of things I admire and love about my other home, Italia. Overall though, the public status of women is not one of them. I haven't yet heard how the voting is going today and tomorrow but I do keep thinking of so many reasons why Silvio Berlusconi does not deserve a third term as prime minister. One need go no further than his attitudes and behaviour toward women, as outlined in Stephen Brown's recent Reuters article, "Berlusconi's sexism chafes as Italian vote looms." Chafe indeed. Here's a man in his 70s who always wears a dark wig and has undergone one or more cosmetic surgeries (facelifts) - in his constant attempt to make himself seem "younger" and (in Black American parlance) to pull women. He's married, by the way.
Brown quotes Berlusconi recently on the campaign trail, "The left has no taste, not even when it comes to women. ... As for our (women candidates) being more beautiful, I say that because in parliament they have no competition."
About Berlusconi, Brown writes: "His women supporters laughed when he called them the "menopause section" at a recent rally and urged them to bake cakes for campaigners [i.e., the candidates, who are vastly male]. His long-suffering wife Veronica, 20 years his junior, got her revenge last year by reprimanding him for lechery in an open letter to a left-leaning newspaper. He publicly apologized."
Exactly what type of leadership does someone with such an outlook offer Italy for the 21st century? Do we really want more of the same: the future turning to the past that is doomed to fail? Italy is an incredible society that deserves and needs to create a new national script; a switch from the 'national political theatre' of the past now grown very, very stale.
Two days after the Brown article, Deepa Babington's came out in Reuters, "Italian women fight to break political barriers." She quotes candidate Marianna Madia ("adopted" daughter of Berlusconi's Democratic Party rival and former mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni). Madia is "a 27-year old economist running for the rival Democratic Party in the parliamentary election": "Every now and then, I sometimes feel we in Italy live in pre-historic times."
The article cites the Inter-Parliamentary Union ranking Italia 67th in the world for the number of women elected to parliament. Italy can do better.
Posted by Marian on 13 April 2008 at 12:51 in Elections anywhere, EU, Gender, HR, Int'l dispatches, MSM, Politics, Radio, Wretched of the Earth? | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Italia back to the polls: it's Veltroni or the other guy, again
Not being there, I feel I'm missing out as Italia prepares to vote - again - on tomorrow and Monday. (Can't the U.S. take the hint about weekend elections?) Italy's current election situation seems sooo eerily deja-vu, like we've been here before, which, in a very real sense, we have, and like it hasn't been that long ago, which it has not. Sunday's choices for prime minister are Walter Veltroni of the Partito Democratico, and a resort to the immediate past in the form of already two-time former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi (a billionaire also known as Italy's third-richest man and formerly the richest). Last fall Berlusconi morphed his Forza Italia party (named for the football - soccer - club he owns) into a new political party called Popolo della Liberta or the "People of Freedom" party. Back in January 1994 in her short essay, "Recent Italian Politics", in Z magazine, writer Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio described Berlusconi's first term as PM:
"... the new government is in the hands of a person who came into politics only about a year ago, leads a party named after the national soccer league, and has more experience in manipulating the media than in being prime minister. The result is a situation in which, if you are a woman in politics, you need to either declare war to abortion or be a dictators' daughter to get in the news; the "family" is back under the supervision of a Catholic ministry; and the space for open discussion on cultural diversity has been dramatically reduced.
The bold section is marked by yours truly. That reference to a "dictator['s] daughter" probably is about politician and self-declared fascist Alessandra Mussolini, who is Il Duce Benito Mussolini's granddaughter and film diva Sophia Loren's niece. I'm still learning what really goes on politically in my 'other home' though I am not looking forward to another Berlusconi term in office in order to find out.
Posted by Marian on 12 April 2008 at 19:33 in Elections anywhere, EU, Home, Int'l dispatches, Politics, Wonders never cease | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Food: from fuel to riots as Reuters covers agflation
The current global food crisis makes me remember being in Jamaica in the last quarter of 1977. Michael Manley was prime minister. For some reason, the U.S. government did not consider Mr. Manley a friend. Somehow I sensed that perhaps it was more than coincidence that the same tense political period between Washington and Kingston witnessed empty shelves in all of Kingston's local food shops. This is no exaggeration. There was no rice and no beans ("peas" in the Caribbean). It's painful to remember, particularly in contrast to my eventual return to the States and walking into a supermarket as though it were the first time. I experienced culture shock. In fact, I wept as I saw aisle after aisle of so many brands of the same products, and much of it junk. Literally nothing to buy on grocery shelves a few short miles away in Jamaica, and row after row of food and junk on U.S. shelves. More often than not the items on the American shelves consisted of something manufactured for human consumption; so much of it in a category we've been conditioned to call "snack" foods. Fast forward to now. I'm not sure if Reuters coined the term "agflation" but they use it in this article on the soaring costs around the globe for people to feed their families and communities. This week in Haiti it was food riots and looting that resulted in several deaths. At the beginning of this year it was tortilla riots in Mexico, and last fall, some of India's poorest protested middlemen's alleged stockpiling for profit of food designated to help feed the most hungry. Amid so many concerns around food and agriculture politics globally and in the U.S., the American public needs to pressure Congress and federal and state governments to re-consider the idea of further converting land and crops used for food to the expansion of biofuel. A related matter is the fact that it's far cheaper and more efficient for people themselves to eat grain rather than raise large animals (beef livestock, for example), feed them enormous quantities of grain, and then slaughter these animals in order for people to eventually eat them. In most U.S. households for 30 years or so, the idea of the practicality of vegetarianism caused little more than a casual or bemused stir (or maybe an argument) over lunch or dinner. Today, however, with heightening contradictions of food, fuel and other costs vs. survival, this discussion hopefully will take on new life and new meaning.
Posted by Marian on 10 April 2008 at 06:23 in Int'l dispatches, Oil, Postcards from the Over-developed world, Richfolk poorfolk, Some other u.s. economy?, Stayin' alive, Wretched of the Earth? | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
India-Africa Summit in Delhi: Hard questions?
April 8-9 mark the first-ever India-Africa Forum Summit. Might the Summit include any component addressing human trafficking and undocumented (i.e., illegal) immigration coming from the Asian subcontinent into East and Southern Africa?? India and the African Union each has its own summit website. From India's website:
"India and Africa have a historic relationship and this has grown into a sustainable partnership. From our struggle against colonialism and apartheid, we have emerged to jointly accept the challenges of a globalising world. Whether we have to deal with threats to international peace and security, the threat from international terrorism or the scourge of poverty, we believe that India and Africa traverse the same path, share the same values and cherish the same dreams."
The AU's description seems decidedly less sentimental: "The Africa-India Forum Summit is intended to consider the modalities to strengthen the cooperation ties between the two partners in the areas of Economic; Political; Science, Technology, Research and Development; Social Development and Capacity Building; Tourism; Infrastructure, Energy and Environment and Media and Communication. The Africa – India Forum Summit aims also at adopting harmonized and comprehensive framework to reinforce the regional cooperation in a wide rage of fields as support to the already existing bilateral cooperation between African countries and India. The Forum would also be an occasion for the sharing and exchange of good practices in harnessing resources from the Diaspora."
"Harnessing resources from the Diaspora." The African Union wants to learn from Indians how to "tap into" its diaspora. Would the diaspora targetted for harnessing be the new one of the past 20-40 years or the far older and much larger one which was expelled and sold away to foreign lands during the slave trades? Thinking of the "historic relationship" between South Asia and Africa (including India before the Partition), it would seem far more logical, not to mention just, that Africa and India (and now Pakistan) would begin by collaborating to do something for the immediate and long-term benefit of the Siddi or Sheedi people and other African-Descendant populations in Asia and South Asia, and in India and Pakistan in particular, whose presence in Asia was created by and who survived the Indian Ocean Slave Trade.
Posted by Marian on 08 April 2008 at 07:38 in African diaspora, Anti-Black Racism, Bandung+50, Capitali$m, Culture/ethnicity/race, Globalisation redux, HR, Int'l dispatches, Oil, Political history, Politics, Slavery world history: 10 May, Wretched of the Earth? | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
March Madness? Bombing, from Belgrade to Baghdad
It's just days after the "Ides of March" - the date when the emperor Giulio Cesare was assassinated in Rome. In English we call him Julius Caesar. In English we also have a saying about March, that it "comes in like a lion," and "goes out like a lamb." We also talk casually about something called "March madness." Does anyone know where that started? I don't know its origin but looking at U.S. foreign policy in the past nine years the idea of "madness" in March seems worth another look. I was part of a group at the Salzburg Seminar in Austria in March 1999, when on the first or second evening we got word that the NATO bombing of Belgrade had begun. Four years later and it was Baghdad. Is there method to madness in March?
Posted by Marian on 21 March 2008 at 06:08 in 1325 Women, peace, conflict, Int'l dispatches, Mideast, Oil, Political history, Shock&Awe, Terror incognito, USA, Wash, dc "Official" | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Spitzer official misconduct could make way for David Paterson?
I'm guessing that New York politico turned radio host Chris Owens has just had his story of the week - of the year - handed to him for his new show Black Politics w/ Chris Owens. And Eliot Spitzer effectively may have just handed New York State's governorship to Lieutenant Gov. David Paterson. I saw Mr. Paterson at the DNC's Fall meeting in Virginia. Most of us who might be at all interested (in the current gov's self-inflicted wounds) are now hearing plenty of news on Mr. Spitzer's amazingly self-destructive (and maybe addictive) hiring of a... sex worker ... while on a visit to Washington, DC. And on Valentine's Eve no less. Media are reporting Spitzer was a regular customer of a prostitution ring whose scope is international. Some of our thoughts go to Silda Wall who happens to be Spitzer's wife. This stunning, sad -and illegal - fiasco has layers enough to rival Shakespeare. Sorry to say, in some ways it all feels like driving past a crash. Unlike an accident, in this case there seems little constructive that observers can do. Today New York Times is calling on Spitzer to step down. Just goes to show, when it comes to some types of 'guy behaviour', 2008 is not 1968; it's not even 1998.
Posted by Marian on 11 March 2008 at 07:00 in Black Progressives, Gender, Gender&disaster , Int'l dispatches, MSM, Politics, Say Whaaa?!?, Shock&Awe, USA | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Castro, Cuba, the Americas: next door, yet so far away
From Cuba this week, at age 81, Fidel Castro announced his retirement. As a child in the late 50s, early 60s, I remember the feeling if not every political detail, of the way Cuba's "surprise" revolution shifted forever the power relationship between one tiny Caribbean island nation and the United States. What probably stands out most is remnants of the terrible sense of dread during the so-called Cuban missile crisis. In school back then we had regular "civil defense" drills. In my safe and pleasant all-Black elementary school we watched film clips of white children climbing under and croutching beneath their school desks. Now forty, fifty years later I ponder all those decades, the years and lifetimes (including my own) of so much missed opportunity for us, the people of the Americas to know each other. Most of us hardly do, if at all. This is especially true from the side of the people of the United States whose gaze in the 20th century, and now continuing into the 21st, only briefly and rarely focused on our region and our 'cousins' (particularly for Black and Native people) who are our neighbors. We particularly and very deliberately ignore Cuba. The ninety miles from there to Miami feels more like nine-thousand. The official U.S. political playbook says Fidel Castro - and by extension all of Cuba - is 'off limits' and to be villified. Yet unlike many Americans, Cubans are able to access education, literacy and health care beyond what the people of the U.S. are led to expect as achievable for a nation of Cuba's size and history. And what of Afro Cubans? What was their lot in Cuban history, and their status since 1960?
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Posted by Marian on 23 February 2008 at 09:36 in "Black Is a Country", 1325 Women, peace, conflict, Anti-Black Racism, Elections anywhere, EU, Int'l dispatches, Las americas, Racial pecking orders , Richfolk poorfolk, Wash, dc "Official" | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Burma's Saffron Revolution: Violent crackdown on day 10
The violent crackdown everyone dreaded is on in Burma. International press are reporting one Japanese man is dead after being shot today by soldiers. This now brings Japan (also a Buddhist country) into the picture. The military controls Internet service within Myanmar and are blocking access to certain blogs, but word is getting out anyway. Several deaths have now been reported. Are the attacks on Buddhist monks, nuns and civilians the beginning of the end of Burma military rule? Where is India's voice? In a muted response China is now telling Burmese authorities to show "restraint". Thailand claims nothing unusual is going on. What about Europe, and Germany in particular? India and Germany both are said to have commercial ties to the Myanmar regime. U.S.-based Chronicle of Higher Ed links to New Mandala academic group blog which has lots of info and in turn links to Burmese site Kachin News Group in English and Burmese. There's also the link to Awzar Thi's Rule of Lords blog with compelling photos of what's now called the Saffron Revolution. Representatives of the people's movement say their non-violent protests are no fluke and the people will not give up.
Posted by Marian on 27 September 2007 at 06:56 in "Black Is a Country", 1325 Women, peace, conflict, Bandung+50, Elections anywhere, EU, Gender, HR, Int'l dispatches, MSM, Peace/conflict, Political history, Politics, save democracy now, The Movement, Web/logs, Worth 1.000 words | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


The research on 1,000 individuals by Kelkoo found out that every year Mr. Average splurge £570 on designer garments, £1,144 on beer, £2,001 on buying on the internet, £2,189 on gizmos and £417 on dining out. The research also shows Mr. average also admit mistakes and use sorry 1.9 million occasions.
They also uses 10,585 hours in bars and pubs, 11 years infront of the television and spends over £2,000 on the web by shopping yesterday's research revealed.
Physical stats of Mr. Average is around 5ft 10in, weigh 12.5st and makes £28,270 per year – have 11 lovers in a life span and have the ability to prepare a modest dinners for 4 (oneof them is spaghetti bolognese).
The study also shows 70 percent of males has the "hunter" personality when shopping online. They consider purchasing as a means of accumulating possessions that declare prosperity, prominence as well as social status, all of these had been at one time essential for survival. However females carry out 80 percent ofshopping for home.
An average woman goes out with 24 males before having Mr Right. Ms average physical stats are 5ft 4inch height, weigh 10st 3lb, makes £22,151per year and usually spends 8.5 years shopping and 5 days annually while watching herself in a mirror.
Even though research found out that males are more powerful and also have much better long distance eyesight, females tend to be better at multi-tasking and responsibilities which require stamina and mental strengths- due to the fact that an average woman vacuum 73,000 miles in her lifetime.


Anri is an Architectural Designer at COLLECTIVE.
Anri was born in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. He pursued his B.Arch and M. Arch degree at the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARKHI) with a Specialist Degree on Urban Planning, Public and Cultural buildings. Anri later pursued his second M.Arch degree of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association of London (AA), Design Research Laboratory (AADRL).
His thesis investigates the issues of modern cultural buildings, museums and galleries, and researched upon the interaction of architecture and people, on how audiences perceive art depending on different conditions within the reorganisational, transformable, self-assembled architectural system. The project was awarded The AAF Graduate School Prize for Design, awarded to the exemplary work in Design across all Graduate Programmes at the AA.
Prior to joining COLLECTIVE, Anri had worked in several bureaus in Moscow on projects that dealt with public spaces, visualisation and interiors.


The Joint Master of Social Work Program will grant academic credit for up to 6 hours of generalist coursework completed at another CSWE-accredited MSW program.
Transfers from non-accredited MSW programs, or graduate programs in other disciplines, are not accepted.
The student requesting credit for coursework completed at another CSWE-accredited MSW program must be admitted to the JMSW program prior to approval of a request for transfer credit. However, admission to the JMSW program does not guarantee approval of transfer credits.
Upon admission the student may request a review of course(s) taken in another CSWE-accredited MSW program to determine whether the course(s) may be transferred for credit. Coursework must be in the MSW generalist curriculum and must have been completed within the five-year period preceding admission to the JMSW program.
A minimum course grade of B must have been earned in each course by the student requesting transfer credit.
All requests for transfer credit must meet the requirements of the Graduate School of North Carolina A&T State University or the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, depending upon which school is administering the admissions process at the time of the request.
When requesting consideration for transfer credit, a student must submit a letter of request to the JMSW Program Director which identifies the course(s) for which transfer credit is requested, a copy of the course description from the official catalog of the university where the course was taken, a copy of the course syllabus, and an official transcript showing the grade earned.
Within the above guidelines, students may request consideration for transfer credit for any JMSW generalist course with the exception of SOWK/SWK 624, Social Work Practice and Human Diversity. All students must complete this course during their enrollment in the JMSW program.
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much of what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about.
My brother Naim Ateek has said what we used to say: "I am not pro-this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti- injustice, anti-oppression."


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Михаил Самуилович Голер (29 февраля 1936, Бухарест — 2020, Бруклин, Нью-Йорк) — молдавский режиссёр-документалист, сценарист.

Биография
Михаил Голер родился в Бухаресте, где его отец в это время учился в Бухарестском университете, а мать (Рухля Борисовна Бройтман) пела в хоральной синагоге и оперетте. После присоединения Бессарабии к СССР в 1940 году семья вернулась в Кишинёв, куда вновь возвратилась из эвакуации в ноябре 1944 года (отец умер в 1942 году в Ашхабаде).

Окончил факультет истории и русской филологии Кишинёвского педагогического института имени Иона Крянгэ (1957). Работал актёром в Русском драматическом театре имени А. П. Чехова, публиковал рецензии в местной прессе, был ассистентом режиссёра на молдавском телевидении, затем на Новосибирском ТВ (1961—1964) и в Барнауле; публиковал театральные заметки в газетах «Советская Сибирь» и «Алтайская правда».

В 1970 году закончил отделение режиссуры ТВ Ленинградского института театра, музыки и кинематографии. В 1968—1978 годах работал режиссёром телестудии «Телефилм-Кишинэу», затем киностудии «Молдова-фильм». Был телеведущим на молдавском телевидении. Возглавлял Молдавское Республиканское общество кинолюбителей (1984—1988).

С 1991 года жил в Нью-Йорке. Сотрудничал в газетах «Форум», «Еврейское местечко» и «Русский базар», работал экскурсоводом. Автор двух путеводителей по Нью-Йорку и США.

Фильмография (режиссёр)

Студия «Телефилм-Кишинэу»
 1964 — «Автографы»
 1964 — «У нас в Семёновке»
 1964 — «Под чужим именем»
 1965 — «Счастье приносят не аисты»
 1966 — «На янтарном берегу»
 1967 — «Наш Ваня»
 1967 — «Один из многих»
 1968 — «Поступь времени»
 1968 — «Фестивальные узоры» (фильм-концерт)
 1969 — «Ион Секриеру»
 1969 — «Там, где его убили»
 1970 — «Свет»
 1970 — «И вечный бой» (сценарист и режиссёр)
 1970 — «Радуга в доме»
 1971 — «Бригадир» (сценарист и режиссёр)
 1971 — «Гратиешты»
 1971 — «Мария Биешу» («Мой голос для тебя», сценарий С. И. Молдована)
 1972 — «Мы строим» (сценарист и режиссёр)
 1972 — «Парторг» (сценарий С. И. Молдована)
 1973 — «Подарок для мамы»
 1973 — «Виктория» (сценарист и режиссёр)
 1973 — «Продиктовано жизнью»
 1973 — «Формула изобилия»
 1974 — «Ла хорэ!»
 1974 — «Случай в саду» (фильм-спектакль)
 1975 — «Будущее начинается сегодня»
 1975 — «Скрипка лэутара»
 1976 — «Хлеб наш насущный»
 1976 — «Одна жизнь и вторая»
 1977 — «Новь молдавского села»
 1977 — «Сплав»
 1977 — «Чем наше слово отзовётся»
 1978 — «Становление»

Киностудия «Молдова-филм»
 1978 — «Вечно юный город»
 1979 — «Когда город спит»
 1979 — «По собственному желанию»
 1980 — «Традициям верны»

Книги
 Уходящая натура. Нью-Йорк, 2000.
 Ах, Нью-Йорк, мой Нью-Йорк: путеводитель с комментариями. Нью-Йорк: Слово/Word, 2002.
 Америка, Америка — от берега до берега. Нью-Йорк: Слово/Word, 2005.

Примечания

Персоналии:Кишинёв
Выпускники Российского государственного института сценических искусств
Выпускники Государственного педагогического университета имени Иона Крянгэ
Кинорежиссёры Молдавии
Кинорежиссёры СССР
Сценаристы Молдавии
Сценаристы СССР
Журналисты СССР


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It's been a long time since my last movie review. That's probably because I don't really go to the theatres that much or rent movies. Anyways, here is one of the rare occasions that I actually watched a (reasonably) new movie, which is the new Rambo film, starring Sylvester Stallone (can't really be anybody else). So read on if you want to know what I think about this film.
After almost a twenty year hiatus, Rambo is back. As with the well received Rocky Balboa in 2006, the new Rambo movie is the latest Sylvester Stallone effort to bring back the names that made him a star. The film sees Stallone reprise his role as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. He also directed and co-wrote the film. Unlike Rocky Balboa, Rambo doesn't quite live up to its namesake and is more or less a film filled with nothing other than mindless action.
The story starts off showing our hero John Rambo (Stallone) making a living as a snake-catcher and boat operator in Thailand near the Burmese border. A group of missionaries, led by Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze) and Sarah Miller (Julie Benz), approaches Rambo to take them to a rebel-supported village in Burma for a humanitarian mission. Rambo initially refuses but eventually agrees to the request, and takes the missionaries to their destination. All goes well until the village is attacked by the ruthless Burmese army, who captures some of the missionaries and slaughters everyone else in the village. It is now up to Rambo and a group of mercenaries to go into the Burmese military base and rescue the imprisoned missionaries.
One of the few good things about Rambo is that the character John Rambo actually looks to be in pretty good shape and of the correct age. He might be a little older and more tired of the world, but thanks to clever use of camera angles and loose clothing, Stallone's character still looks fit and up to the task of gunning down legions of enemy soldiers in order to save the day. Unfortunately that's one of the few good things that stand out in this film.
The biggest downside of the new Rambo movie is the lack of a decent plot. The story is overly simplistic, very predictable, and more or less just an excuse for Rambo to open fire and rack up a huge number of kills (the body-count gets pretty high in this movie). There also isn't much in terms of character development unlike some of the previous iterations of the series. John Rambo at the start of the film is more or less the same John Rambo at the end of the film, but I suppose the character is at the point where nothing really can be changed about him. The action in Rambo is decent and nicely paced, but there is nothing special about it and the climax sequence is a bit too long and monotonous. The film's shortcomings added together mean that Rambo is nothing more than an average action flick, albeit one with a very high body-count.
So overall, the new Rambo movie isn't going to win any awards any time soon. If you are a fan of the previous Rambo films or old-school American action movies, then Rambo is worth a look, for nostalgia if nothing else. Otherwise it is just an average action movie that provides nothing more than 90 minutes of mindless entertainment. Maybe that's not such a bad thing.


The Southampton Village Motel, a family owned and operated, local business, is proud to announce the complete renovation of our pristine 315 Hampton Road location. The renovation and full facelift of our ten individual guest rooms now featuring elegantly hand made furniture designed by Interior Designer, Martha Zukosky and Contractor, Mauricio Borge of Challenge Construction.
A complete remodeling of the bathroom has adhered to the modern rejuvenation of the property. Now lined with chrome accents, monogramed bathrobes, and a sleek glass shower door, The SVM feels more like a luxury New York City hotel than a maturing, quaint, 35 year-old, family run business in the heart of Southampton Village. Each room is fully equipped with small discreet refrigerators, comfortable queen-size or twin beds, flat screen TV's, 25-channel cable TV and WiFi throughout.
"We are proud and excited to unveil our new product this year just in time for the Spring season. We have really gone above and beyond and used our luxury hotel background to upgrade the amenities and the overall guest experience we offer here at The Southampton Village Motel."


A nun pours oil in front of the Shroud of Turin, which is the subject of a new book that dates the linen to the first century.
VATICAN CITY — The Shroud of Turin went on display for a special TV appearance Saturday amid new research disputing claims it's a medieval fake and purporting to date the linen some say was Jesus' burial cloth to around the time of his death.
Pope Francis sent a special video message to the event in Turin's cathedral but made no claim that the image on the shroud of a man with wounds similar to those suffered by Christ was really that of Jesus. He called the cloth an "icon," not a relic — an important distinction.
"This image, impressed upon the cloth, speaks to our heart and moves us to climb the hill of Calvary, to look upon the wood of the Cross, and to immerse ourselves in the eloquent silence of love," he said.
Many experts stand by carbon dating of scraps of the cloth that date it to the 13th or 14th century. However, some have suggested the dating results might have been skewed by contamination and have called for a larger sample to be analyzed.
The Vatican has tiptoed around just what the cloth is, calling it a powerful symbol of Christ's suffering while making no claim to its authenticity.
The 14-foot-long, 3.5-foot-wide cloth is kept in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case in Turin's cathedral but is only rarely open to the public. The last time was in 2010, when more than 2 million people lined up to pray before it and then-Pope Benedict XVI visited.
The latest display coincided with Holy Saturday. It also coincided with the release of a book based on new scientific tests on the shroud that researchers say date the cloth to the first century.
The research in "The Mystery of the Shroud," by Giulio Fanti of the University of Padua and journalist Saverio Gaeta, is based on chemical and mechanical tests on fibers of material extracted for the carbon-dating research. An article with the findings is expected to be submitted for peer-review, news reports say.


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Baseball Mustangs Honored With League Accolades
Kids, Parents, And Community Gather For Festivities
OBSA Opening Day
Nine year old Hudson Ruvalcaba throws from the mound on Saturday for the Yankees.
Sunshine, ice cream, music and more were among the highlights from the Oakdale Baseball Softball Association (OBSA) Opening Day on Saturday, April 1.
The morning kicked off with nearly 1,000 kids getting their team and individual photos taken at T.L. Davis Sports Complex before the opening ceremony began at 10 a.m. Once the photos were taken the teams lined up for team introductions and while awaiting those introductions, coaches along with Oakdale High School baseball and softball players threw out nearly 350 T-shirts to the players.
Master of Ceremonies Mike Lynn introduced the first pitch ceremony that saw Oakdale Police Chief Scott Heller throw out the first pitch to Carson Moffett for baseball and Oakdale High School varsity softball player Grace Green throw out the first softball pitch to Allison Ruvalcaba. Police Chief Heller also grabbed the winning ticket for the 50/50 raffle at opening ceremonies.
"I'm not sure what was more stressful, throwing out the first pitch or grabbing the winning raffle ticket," Heller joked. "It is an honor to be out here today. OBSA represents everything that is great about Oakdale and our community."
The chief added that Carson did a good job catching the first pitch and then signed the ball for him as well.
Offering a blessing was Sierra Foothills Community Church Pastor Henry Raven and the National Anthem was performed by young softball player Jessica Burchell. The teams were introduced by age group and league. Players from the age of four to 15 packed T.L. Davis and by 11:30 a.m. began their day of play. Games were held at T.L. Davis, Cottleswoods Park and Fair Oaks Elementary School.
Vendors packed the outfield including fan favorite Don Serrano of Serrano Custom Paint, who made his annual visit for helmet art work.
"I could not ask for better weather. This year's opener was another huge success in the books," OBSA President David Jablonski said. "Kids of all ages were excited to play ball, some to be the first time this season, as (original) Opening Day was postponed due to poor weather and field conditions."
This is the second year of OBSA since youth softball and youth baseball have collaborated.
"I am very proud of my board members. We all do the best we can to make a successful program for the kids in our community. Sponsors that donate dollars to help fund our program is huge," noted Jablonski. "The endless hours coaches and parents take part in the little baseball/softball teams is crucial. Everyone from the board from coaches, parents and sponsors. Everyone pitching in to help make our program what it is today is special. It's unique and at the end of the day it's all about the great experiences the kids will have.
"The friendships they made along the way and reminiscing at the memories they made from playing OBSA."
The OBSA season runs until late May.
Stanislaus Fair Features Multiple Sporting Events
Cadwell Competing In International Finals Youth Rodeo
Special Speedway Victory Earned By Ross Strmiska
Electronic Reporting System For Commercial Fish Landings


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Q: What is the first Pokemon game where you can access the pokedex during battles? Bulbapedia says absolutely nothing at what times you access the pokedex. It is a point of unbelieveable difference from the anime- nearly in every battle that Ash has he accesses the pokedex. You can't do it Pokemon Emerald. What was the first pokemon game where you could access the pokedex?

A: No one from the main series, as far as I remember. Because that's not how the games work. You have to encounter or fight the Pokemon to receive information about it (unless you received it by gift/trade). There's no way to access the Pokedex while battling, also because there's no option in the menu, you can only: fight, change Pokemon, use an item or flee.
The closest one could be Pokemon Legends: Arceus, that allows you to check the Pokedex while approaching the Pokemon. Then you can decide to catch it or throw a Pokeball and start a battle.

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it appears that sfacgk is *not* split up among the different processes, but rather each process has a complete copy of sfacgk. Is it correct, and if it is a bug or was intentional?
This is very interesting. You are right it is peculiar. Might well be a Bug. I need to research this one.
You did eliminate the possibility of running out of memory? I did not see this error in any other circumstances yet but there can aways be something more subtle.


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Louisiana-Monroe 31 - 71 Ohio State
No. 3 Ohio State routs Louisiana Monroe
Dec 28, 2013 - 5:24 AM Columbus, OH (SportsNetwork.com) - Lenzelle Smith, Jr. had 17 points and seven rebounds to lead third-ranked Ohio State to a 71-31 thumping of Louisiana-Monroe at Value City Arena.
LaQuinton Ross added 15 points and 10 rebounds and Amedeo Della Valle chipped in with 14 points off the bench for the Buckeyes (13-0), who have won 15 straight at home.
Ohio State will open up Big Ten play on Tuesday when it visits the Purdue Boilermakers.
"We have 18 battles coming up and the war is decided in March. From the standpoint of the challenges of that lie ahead, it's what the guys sign up for when they come to Ohio State," said Buckeyes coach Thad Matta on the upcoming start of conference play.
Javon James led the Warhawks (3-5) with seven points. UL-Monroe shot an ice cold 18.5 percent (10-for-54) from the field.
The Buckeyes opened the game on a 12-0 run and led 25-4 after a Smith 3 at the 10:45 mark and Ohio State took a 41-20 lead into the break.
"The story of the game was the first five minutes of the first half. We came out and didn't play hard. We weren't running down the floor hard. We didn't do anything that we worked on or talked about: shoot-around, the pre-game speech, the whole deal," said ULM coach Keith Richard.
The Warhawks were held scoreless over the first 10:40 of the second half and were outscored 30-11 over the final 20 minutes.
Friday marked the first-ever meeting between the two schools ... OSU is off to its best start since the 2010-11 campaign when it started the season 24-0 and went on to lose to Kentucky in the Sweet 16 ... The Buckeyes' bench outscored ULM's starters by a 27-18 margin.
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Louisiana-Monroe 31, Ohio State(3) 71 FinalDec 31 12:11 PM
LOUISIANA-MONROE: 31
LOUISIANA-MONROE: 0
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Craft to Officially Retire this Summer Jun 11
Columbus to Host 2020 TBT at Nationwide Arena Jun 11
Spielman & Hooley: Chris Holtmann Joins the Show May 15
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Grading Chris Holtmann's Three Seasons at Ohio State Apr 16
Holtmann's Regret Endures Over Missing NCAA Tournament Apr 14
Ohio State Hoops Roster Complete With Abel Porter Transfer Apr 13
Examining Ohio State's Hoops Transfers Case by Case Apr 8
Are Ohio State's Basketball Transfers a Sign of Trouble? Apr 8
Bucknell's Jimmy Sotos Transfers to Ohio State Apr 6
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